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However, what hurt Gorshkov the most was that at the end of last year, the Chinese comrades shared the performance summary of their Type 59 cruiser.
12700 tons! 180 meters!Endurance of 8500 nautical miles!
Now the big brother of the Soviet Union can only build 5300-ton cruisers.
But Gorshkov is very puzzled by one thing: the Chinese cruiser is so big that it can install 16 P-35 launchers. However, the Chinese cruiser did not install such a large missile, but a "medium-sized" general-purpose missile launcher. , 122 launchers can switch between anti-ship missiles and ship-to-air missiles.
"Although there are many difficulties in the development of naval surface ships, we have to develop them. If there are no Soviet Navy warships on the sea, the Soviet Union's maritime security and maritime interests cannot be effectively guaranteed, and we will make historical mistakes."
Gorshkov addressed the officers of the Baltic Fleet participating in the launching ceremony.
"Although it is difficult and not 100% satisfied, it is a good start. After it, Type 58, we will try our best to add large ships to the navy."
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In 1961, only the US, the Soviet Union, and China competed in cruisers?No……
The empire on which the sun never sets also came to join in the fun.
"The British Empire cannot live without a navy. If we only rely on the old ships built in World War II and do not buy new ships, the authority of sea power will slip from the hands of the empire in a short time."
"The 01-ton CVA-[-] aircraft carrier needs more powerful combat ships to provide escort. The new escort ships should have more effective area air defense capabilities. Now we have built county-level destroyers, but the 'sea cucumbers' used by the county-level 'Missiles are unqualified area air defense missiles, and the 'Sea Javelin' under development is an excellent air defense missile, but it needs a new platform."
"The Royal Navy has to build a Type 82 cruiser to equip a large air-to-air radar, the Sea Dart missile system, and give the ship enough endurance."
"If two CVA-2 aircraft carriers are built, then the Royal Navy should build eight anti-aircraft cruisers to form a carrier battle group."
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"CVA-01, that aircraft carrier is a good aircraft carrier, but the UK must not cut CVA-01 because of the economic depression and insufficient funds. Once CVA-01 is cut, there is no need for Type 82 cruisers to exist."
Tang Hua returned to Beijing and planned to leave for the Soviet Union in a few days.
The news of the large-scale warships built by the United Kingdom and the United States, the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff also had to notice, and Boss Peng even talked about it at the economic work conference.
The British warships are still in the budget stage, and the U.S. Navy's warships are really being built. The "Enterprise" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is about to enter service, and the "Long Beach" is about to enter service, and now the US Navy has more than one nuclear-powered cruiser, the "Long Beach", but it is only classified as a destroyer leader.
Mr. Peng: "Our country's shipbuilding resources are evenly distributed, and we can start building a cruiser every few years. How poor is the UK?"
Tang Hua: "When the British economy was in depression, their navy and military expenditures really couldn't be paid for.... The Soviet comrades seem to be dissatisfied recently?"
Chairman: "We have considered the matter you mentioned carefully, and finally wrote an article and published it. But it is not to criticize the Soviet Union, but to ourselves."
Vice Chairman Liu: "The Soviet Union has no dissatisfaction, and they have never expressed it."
"I mean, Admiral Gorshkov, the commander of the Soviet Navy, was dissatisfied with the fact that they could only build cruisers of more than 5000 tons, and he probably complained to Khrushchev in private."
Vice Chairman Liu: "That's it. Then when you go fishing in Lake Baikal, listen to how they complain."
Tang Hua: "There are actually no fish in Lake Baikal."
Chairman, Vice Chairman Liu, Mr. Peng: ...
The meeting adjourned.
This year, Beidaihe partially resumed its summer office. The reason why it is said to be a partial reply is that an enlarged meeting of the Politburo will be held here at the end of July. The chairman and the others flew Tang Huapia to the Soviet Union.Probably this has nothing to do with Tang Hua.
Chapter 50, Sino-Soviet Joint Venture Wenchang Launch Center
Moscow.
The delegation of the Ministry of Heavy Industry and the Ministry of Railways who came with Tang Hua first signed the contract for the introduction of diesel locomotive and electric locomotive factories with the Soviet Council of Ministers-Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Transport Machinery Manufacturing.
When New China was founded, locomotives and carriages were one of the few large-scale industrial machines in China that could be produced by themselves.All steam locomotives, of course.
In 1955, the Shengli Oilfield successfully developed oil. Since then, China has gradually shed the title of an oil-poor country, and the steam locomotives running on the national railway lines can gradually be replaced.
In 1957, China began to purchase Soviet locomotive locomotives. In 1958, the Dalian Locomotive Works of the Ministry of Railways successfully trial-produced the first diesel locomotive.From 1958 to 1961, Dalian Locomotive Works slowly began to switch to producing diesel locomotives, but Changchun Locomotive Works and Zhengzhou Locomotive Works were still making steam locomotives.
Now that China has (symbolically) exported crude oil to Japan, domestic railways should be able to eliminate steam engines and transition to a pattern of internal combustion locomotives as the main locomotive and electrified railways as the supplement.
The contract signed this time is to completely upgrade the technology of the two locomotive factories in Changchun and Zhengzhou (almost similar to the establishment of new factories), and switch to the production of diesel locomotive locomotives; the Dalian Locomotive Factory will trial produce electric locomotive locomotives.
If all goes well, the two factories produced the last steam locomotive in China in 1963. The steam locomotive on the railway line will be in operation until the early 80s. After that, the steam locomotive will be basically retired except for some special road sections. .
"Regarding the heavy-duty transformation of the Siberian Railway, the Soviet State Planning Commission is planning, but it should be unlikely to start this year or next year." Andrei, the deputy minister of the Soviet Ministry of Communications, answered Fujishiro Yuan's question.
Fujishiro Haruka: "However, we have put the transformation plan on the China-Mongolia Railway. The concept of the 'land bridge' that we proposed before, connecting Tianjin and Leningrad by railway, actually requires the railway line along the way to have a large Capacity, smooth lines, and preferably shortcuts.”
The China-Mongolia Railway extends northward from Ulaanbaatar and connects with the Trans-Siberian Railway, which is currently the fastest railway route from Beijing to Moscow.
Andre: "The China-Mongolia Railway is a branch of the Trans-Siberia Railway, and the current capacity of the Trans-Siberia Railway is not fully saturated. A little increase in the capacity of this branch line will not cause much impact."
Fujishiro Yuan: "For the time being, it is possible. However, this time I still want to discuss with you, no, with the member countries of the Economic and Trade Council on the concept of the second Eurasian land bridge."
"Article two?"
Fujishiro Yuan: "The line between Tianjin and Leningrad is now connected, and there is only work left to make it smoother. The second Eurasian land bridge, our idea is to start from Lianyungang, China, and go west Passed through Lanzhou, Urumqi, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and recently arrived in Gdansk, Poland, or perhaps a port in the GDR."
Andre's eyes were wide open, thinking for a long time where this "Second Eurasian Land Bridge" would pass on the map, and then said: "If it is such a land bridge, then there are many routes that do not exist now. Newly built. If the western section of the railway line wants to enter Poland or even the Democratic Germany, it needs to be coordinated within the scope of the Economic Cooperation Council.”
Fujishiro: "Don't worry, we can build this land bridge in 10 or 15 years."
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Tang Hua was present, but during the introduction negotiations, Fujishiro Haruka was the main speaker. At this time, Tang Hua asked a question:
"What is the Soviet Union's current plan for high-speed locomotives and high-speed railways?"
Andre: "High-power diesel locomotives and electric locomotives, oh, if that's not enough, we're making a kind of super locomotive."
Tang Hua: "No need for jet engines."
Andre: "...In short, the most promising thing at present is to increase the power of the internal combustion locomotive and electric locomotive, and increase the average running speed. Although the increase is not large, it is very stable and the technology span is also small."
Tang Hua: "It seems that we still have to introduce diesel locomotive factories first... This technical route is indeed correct."
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USSR Academy of Sciences.
Now Tang Hua is not the only foreign academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, but he is definitely the most famous.Foreign academicians and Soviet academicians are ranked together, and their popularity may be in the top five.
Even if you exclude those secret Chinese projects, secret projects that only the top Chinese and Soviet officials know about, there is still a lot to disclose.
"Dean Nesmeyanov, long time no see."
The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union is still a very interesting complex. There is the steady Dean Nesmeyanov, the big weirdo Landau, and Kurchatov, Hareton, and Aleksandrov who help correct homework.
Tang Hua also discovered that the 1958 Nobel Prize winners: Cherenkov, Frank, and Tamm were also present.